Towards common reusable semantics

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Reuse has emerged as a promising field of software and system engineering, where previously acquired knowledge is reused and/or transformed to create new knowledge. Reuse means acquiring model artifacts from another context instead of creating the artifacts from scratch. It involves a process to specify, produce, classify, retrieve and adopt artifacts such as semi-formal/formal models or executable specifications or fragments thereof for the purpose of use in assembly activities. Reuse provides for quality improvement and productivity increases, since developers spend more time testing and validating than writing code. Data rescue and reuse also contribute to predictions of the future. Information and knowledge derived from past trends sustain future predictions and underpin attribution needed to drive policy responses. For example, ecosystems are a predilection domain for such studies. Sustained observations have long been recognized as important in disentangling climate driven change from regional and local-scale anthropogenic impacts and environmental fluctuations or cycles in natural systems (Hawkins et al. 2013; Palczewska et al. 2014). …